The AI tool is considered to be a safe alternative to conventional double reading by radiologists and can reduce heavy workloads for doctors.

In a randomised controlled trial led by researchers from Lund University in Sweden, 80,033 women were randomly allocated into two groups: 40,003 women in the intervention group that underwent AI-supported screening and 40,030 in the control group that underwent standard double reading without AI support.

“In our trial, we used AI to identify screening examinations with a high risk of breast cancer, which underwent double reading by radiologists. The remaining examinations were classified as low risk and were read only by one radiologist. In the screen reading, radiologists used AI as detection support, in which it highlighted suspicious findings on the images,” said Kristina Lång, who led the study.

“We found that using AI resulted in the detection of 20 per cent more cancers compared with standard screening, without...